Kit Thomas

5 emotionless people look at one person who is viewing a laptop screen and saying hmmmm

there’s always one person in the family who looks at the Doppler radar

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

Coal Collapse Continues 🏭 🔻

www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

10 #asteroids passed closer than the Moon in a 5-day period from September 23-28. All were discovered this month. The largest up to 41 meters wide. #astronomy

I've been craving more academic material lately, so thank you for sharing!

This is an awesome diagram! Do you have the publication this is from? I'd love to read more

@JustonStrmRider and I were mesmerized by this incredible supercell structure as the Enderlin, North Dakota EF5 tornado was occurring! This was the first official NWS-assigned EF5 tornado rating since the infamous Moore, Oklahoma Tornado on May 20, 2013. #ndwx

This image of Hurricane Humberto contains the visible (band I1) product from the S-NPP weather satellite from 17:10 UTC on 2025-09-27.

On September 27, 2025, Hurricane Humberto reached its peak intensity as a Category Five hurricane well northeast of Puerto Rico on its journey across the western Atlantic Ocean. The polar orbiting satellite Suomi-NPP captured a spectacular view of the clear eye of Humberto. (1/5)

Drone photo courtesy Brian Emfinger and used with permission.

The CSSL/NTP assisted the US National Weather Service (NWS) with their upgrading of the official rating of the June 2025 Enderlin, ND tornado from EF3 to EF5.

Announced by the NWS today, it’s the first EF5-rated tornado in the US since 2013.

Details here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202...

Image B. Emfinger

4.5%, not 0.04%

Scientists May Have Finally Detected a Solid Inner Core on Mars - Eos Seismic clues from NASA’s InSight mission suggest that Mars hides a solid inner core, and raise new questions about why the planet’s magnetic field disappeared.

Seismic data from the #NASA #InSight mission reveal a solid inner core at the center of Mars.

eos.org/articles/sci...

One day I want to visit somewhere that has modern stromatolites. Truly a wonder of life over a BILLION years old.

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between August and November by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 11th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 110,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,190,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,850,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

YouTube video by Kit Thomas, Meteorologist Hurricane Imelda Passing Over Bermuda | October 1, 2025

Hurricane Imelda moved quickly over Bermuda, with winds up to 100mph at its peak. Still uncertain if it officially made "landfall," but this small island may have benefitted from being on the left side of the storm as it moves almost 30mph!

Imelda's core is very near Bermuda!

From Hurricane #Imelda today. Strong winds create a streaking effect on the ocean surface. Was about 65 kts here so this is hurricane force. Eventually upgraded to Cat 2 during the mission. Should pack a decent punch to Bermuda tonight.

An infrared satellite image of Hurricane Matthew on September 30, 2016.

This is a satellite image of Hurricane Matthew on Sept. 30, 2016, just before it became a Category 5 storm.

There were zero Atlantic Cat 5 hurricanes in the nine years before this satellite image.

There have been twelve Atlantic Cat 5 hurricanes in the nine years after this satellite image.

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The sound of thousands of dollars shattering.

I called my daughter up last evening and said, "go outside right now, you'll thank me later."

NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Global Tropics Hazards Outlook maps valid for October 8-14 (Week 2) and October 15-21 (Week 3). Issued September 30, 2025.

In need of a doomscrolling break? Curious about future tropical activity? Take a few minutes to drink in this wealth of information offered by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, updated today!

Details on an erratic MJO, upcoming Central American gyre, and more~

www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/pre...

Hurricane #Imelda has rapidly intensified over the last 24 hours, reaching 95mph about a day ahead of forecast.
Meanwhile, Hurricane #Humberto has weekend quickly, filling its pressure >34mb in 24 hours for the last three updates.

Yep. The idea that city/state government is going to “maintain the large, complex infrastructure needed to effectively respond to rare catastrophic events is nonsensical. Having a robust FEMA enables the ongoing maintenance of the needed disaster response infrastructure at a federal level.”

Just checked the latest recon flight from a couple hours ago and sure enough, double eyewalls!

Humberto looks like it's falling apart a bit. The inner eyewall is wobbling a lot even making it appear to have a second non-concentric eye lol
I'd suspect there's an outer eyewall forming and causing the inner structure to be cut off from moisture and is getting weaker.

This is PRECISELY why folks can't take just one forecast and use it as gospel over a period of time.

The models for #TD9 were super tricky, and 48 hours ago we were thinking about a landfall in the Carolinas as a possibility.

Now it's going to take a literal right turn!

An absolutely stunning view today of Hurricane Humberto, a Category 5 storm.

In 1-minute #GOES19/#GOESEast Infrared images, the eye of #Humberto began to exhibit a bit of trochoidal motion as the hurricane further intensified later in the day: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Forgot to attach high-seas analysis from OPC

I think there's something to be said for the present proximity of a strong anti-cyclone. Right now, it's south of a decent ridge extending from a 1029mb Azores high, so all that sinking air is moving a lot of mass out of the upper levels for Humberto to expand its upper anti-cyclone.